(ENDE426) Deceased Estate - Inoperable

The first long player from Boris Otterdam's death industrial/noise project Deceased Estate.

ABOUT THE ALBUM:

"Inoperable" was borne out of that feeling of isolation and helplessness that comes from long term mental illnesses and medicated inertia. That feeling of silence and solitude where you can either be numbed and static in thought and emotive state or hyper-aware of your surroundings and the impending uncertainty of you know...getting through the day.

The deafening silence of an empty room, the distant sound of the outside world, the static of dulled awareness and the sound of your own heart beating and the pulse of your own mind racing.

In order to capture that sensation for artistic purposes. Recordings were made quickly and spontaneously.

In a time when electronic music is becoming more and more artificial such as streaming services generating AI artists to compete with human ones and the EDM fanatical over obsession with "clean production", "correct techniques to represent styles", the over abundance of the autotune and the robotic, formulaic stoicism of the budding commercial potential hitmakers. These field recordings were recorded directly as they happened and little editing of the human element of their recorded capture was edited out.

All recordings were made digitally and produced using various electronic and conventional hardware instruments including microphones, guitars, guitar pedals, sequencers, drum machines and archaic, semi working synths (including a 20 year old Casio).

All recordings were then moved to software where they were further manipulated, reshaped, compressed, uncompressed, refined, destroyed and molded into their final compositions and some recordings were then reprocessed or added to by hardware and then re-fed back into software for final mixdowns.

"Inoperable" also serves as a revolt against the current trend in electronic music which for example sees live "showcase nights" organised for producers who use "hardware only" (which they proudly proclaim in their promotion) which is of course where wealthy, pretentious and newly purchased modular owners do brief masturbatory sets in front of small crowds of mostly their friends and scenesters who gasp in awe at the "authentic vintage sounds" they make and their dexterity at using modulars.

DON'T BUY INTO IT

Remember that "vintage electronic producers" used what they had and what they had access to - given the chance they probably would have leaped at the opportunity to use some of the software technology on offer today and not sneered at "software producers" or made ridiculous comments like "you need modular to make drone" or "software music isn't real music"

Try to remember the very act of making music electronically all through the 20th Century was one of rebellion and defiance and they had enough ignorance and resistance already from traditional musicians. I hardly think they'd encourage more ignorance and elitist bigotry from other electronic producers based on their choice of instrument - like we have now.

Most of these "hardware only" people are closed minded and so addicted to tutorials and pompous texts on music theory that despite having a studio so over stocked that it looks like an arctic weather station - rarely complete or release anything they produce.

In my experience. Those who start off as experimental electronic musicians often equate renouncing that and "getting serious about their music" with simply spending the rest of their lives puking out boring 4/4 EDM and wondering why they're struggling in a sea of likeminded other strugglers. Now that they've long since abandoned the music they were good at and saw them stand out in the crowd.

No great artist or musician ever got anywhere by limiting their options.

If you limit your palette then you limit your potential.

- Boris Otterdam

MORE DECEASED ESTATE:

enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende005-hyperex-machina-vs-deceased-estate-submariner-ep

splitendes.bandcamp.com/album/se15-hyperex-machina-vs-deceased-estate

archive.org/details/deceased-estate-live-at-after-midnight-4

sunholerecords.bandcamp.com/album/shr065-ashes-ashes  

credits

released December 16, 2022

All tracks recorded and produced by Deceased Estate at The Shop South Perth Western Australia in mid-December 2022.

Cover art by Nae Midion.